[CW] Re: QSK

[Alan Wormser]

Well, beating a dead horse, but....

I have a TS-830 - moderately loud relay by today's standards.  That's
"semi-breakin" not true QSK, of course.  But when I've used a Scout, and a
friend's IC-706, I could hear signals between my dits & dahs, and found it
very distracting.  I suppose I could get used to it, but my preference is to
set it so I hear sigs between words - or letters if I am going slow,
Farnesworth style - for a newbie.

The gaps words is sufficient for me to hear the other station break in.
Works well enough for traffic handling, where it is most important.  But you
have to adjust to listening between the words and not just holding forth or
runing wiords & letters together.

I suppose, if the relay isn't too loud (it's great with headphones anyway)
and the ALC isn't popping (like on my beloved HW-8), then semi-breakin is
fine with me.  I just have to adjust my sending and my listening skills a
bit.

dit dit,

Alan N5LF